U+AC01 "각" Hangul Syllable Gag Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+AC01 "각" Hangul Syllable Gag is a precomposed syllable in the Korean writing system, representing the sound "gak" as a combination of the initial consonant "ㄱ" (g) and the vowel "ㅏ" (a) followed by the final consonant "ㄱ" (k). This character belongs to the Hangul Syllables block in the Unicode standard, which was designed to encode all possible Korean syllable combinations for efficient text processing. The syllable "각" is commonly used in the Korean language and can be found in words such as "각도" meaning angle or "각자" meaning each person, reflecting its role in both everyday vocabulary and formal contexts.

General Properties

Code Point U+AC01
Version Added 2.0
Name Hangul Syllable Gag
Block Hangul Syllables
General Category Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Left To Right
Decomposition Type Canonical
Decomposition Mapping "가" U+AC00 Hangul Syllable Ga
"ᆨ" U+11A8 Hangul Jongseong Kiyeok

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding 각
HTML Hex Encoding 각
UTF-8 Encoding 0xEA 0xB0 0x81
UTF-16 Encoding 0xAC01
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000AC01
C/C++/Java Escape \uac01

Unicode Properties

NFC Quick Check Yes
NFKC Quick Check Yes
Numeric Type None
Numeric Value NaN
Line Break Hangul LVT Syllable
East Asian Width Wide
Script Hangul
Script Extensions Hangul
Hangul Syllable Type LVT Syllable
Indic Syllabic Category Other
ID Start Yes
XID Start Yes
ID Continue Yes
XID Continue Yes
Alphabetic Yes
Vertical Orientation Upright
Grapheme Base Yes
Grapheme Cluster Break Hangul Syllable Type=LVT
Word Break Alphabetic letter
Sentence Break OLetter